house plants that look like christmas trees Norfolk Island pine Multi Stem, Christmas Tree

house plants that look like christmas trees Norfolk Island pine Multi Stem, Christmas TreeNorfolk Island pine, Christmas Tree, (Araucaria heterophylla) Norfolk Island pine (Araucaria heterophylla) is a popular houseplant often purchased during the holidays as a Christmas tree, these wonderful trees can also brighten your landscape long after the holidays end, plant them as an accent plant or screen for privacy. While this tree can grow quite large in its natural habitat, Norfolk Island pine is slow growing, drought tolerant and easy to

Norfolk Island pine, Christmas Tree, (Araucaria heterophylla)

Norfolk Island pine (Araucaria heterophylla) is a popular houseplant often purchased during the holidays as a Christmas tree, these wonderful trees can also brighten your landscape long after the holidays end, plant them as an accent plant or screen for privacy. While this tree can grow quite large in its natural habitat, Norfolk Island pine is slow growing, drought tolerant and easy to care.

If you are planning to give your Norfolk Island pine a spot in your landscape, remember that these trees get quite large. Be sure you have the room for a 60 to 70 foot mature tree. If not, consider simply enjoying this lovely little tropical tree as a container plant.

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Norfolk Island pines are not true pines; they are members of a pre-historic family of conifers Araucariaceae, an incredibly diverse and widespread plant family during the Jurassic and Cretaceous time periods. The end of the Cretaceous period saw not only the extinction of the dinosaurs, but the extinction of members of the Araucariaceae family in the northern hemisphere. However, in the southern hemisphere, members of the Araucariaceae family continued to thrive.

Norfolk Island, where this tree hails from, is located in the South Pacific between Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. The flag of this Australian territory actually features the Norfolk Island pine. While sold here in the states as tabletop Christmas trees, in their native habitat these plants can incredibly reach 200 feet tall and have trunks that swell to 10 feet in diameter! In Florida these trees typically grow to only 60 to 80 feet.